10:01 AM, January 9, 2012 |

“As you watch each candidate fall, people have been saying ‘OK, now who do we go for?’” said John Lehman, pastor at Hampton Park Baptist Church in Greenville, where Perry planned a visit on Sunday evening.

It’s a core primary voting demographic here, and for now, they appear to be edging toward Rick Santorum.

“I see a little bit of movement to Santorum in South Carolina in the last few days,” said Robert Taylor, a dean at Bob Jones University, the powerful fundamentalist Christian college in Greenville.

“But when you talk about religious conservative voters now, the big consideration is ‘Can he beat Obama?’” Taylor said. “Santorum is still going to have to make the case that he is the one who can do it.”